LaurieBeeRNYtoDSisMyGoal
Hi, my name is Laura or Laurie,
So, my story is a cationary tale with a happy ending. 
I had a butcher of a RNY Gastric Bypass Surgeon by the name of Dr Stanley Zagorski perform a botched, bastardized version of a RNY that entailed him performing a complete gastrectomy of my stomach except for the RNY pouch. He did this without my consent, and without even documenting it in my post operative report, and falsifying my medical reports. He also failed to connect the plumbing up for a RNY Gastric Bypass Properly so one of the reasons I threw up for years was because food was getting stuck at the bottom of an upside down T intersect instead of a Y intersect. This caused me to undergo a needless atempted revision to Duodenal Switch on May 5th, 2021, because with out the missing stomach this procedure is impossible. 
Four and a half months later, on September 24, 2021 I was revised to a hybrid procedure that is a cross between a Modified Duodenal Switch and a Distal RNY Bypass, by surgeon joking called it a Distal Switch and it has stuck in my head. Dr. Charles Procter, Jr. of Atlanta, GA saved my life.
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I originally had RNY gastric bypass on Oct 28th, 2002 at Tripler Army Hospital, in Hawaii by Dr. Stanley Zagorski. At the time I thought he was the end all, be all of the world, everyone in our program did and as far as I know everyone who had surgery by him at the same time as me has eventually had to seek a revision. Failing at Weight Loss Surgery makes you feel like the biggest loser, but not in a good way and really screws with your head. I do have to say, in some ways I feel like we were set up to fail, every other weight loss surgery program I have ever heard of has patients start on a clear liquid diet, then progress to full liquids and so on right? This fool told us we were to go home eating regular food, and to chew well, that our mouths were the best food processors. Maybe I should have known then something was weird, but I wanted to get healthier, I still do. I followed the guidelines set out by my doctor, and at 350.5 on the day of surgery my lowest weight after surgery was about 270, and it was a stuggle to get there. I would go to post op meetings and weigh in and everyone else was dropping weight right and left and I was losing really slowly. To make matters worse, any time I asked for help or asked if an alternate protein source I had found was ok the nurse who ran the program, Anna, made me feel like an idiot and making bad choices. I had found protein tortilla chips and brought them to a meeting to share as part of show and tell, thinking maybe they would be good for taco salads and she basic called me a bad patient in front of everyone, I quit sharing after that. I Over time I pulled back from the group without even realizing it. We were all military wives, so it wasn't unusual for people to come and go in the group. It got to the point at weigh ins i would lie to the nurse about my weight if I could, just to get approval. I am not saying all of this to get sympathy or anything, I am just telling my story I guess. In 2004 my husband was reassigned to Virginia, and try as i might there was never really any support groups offered through the military that I could find to attend so I quit going to meetings. I still tried to following what I was supposed to do, but it was a constant struggle. Over time, I slowly regained the weight I had lost.In the past 18 years since surgery I have tried Weight Watchers (I could never eat enough food to meet my points for my weight), South Beach, Paleo, Keto (I actually like Keto, but I would lose and gain the same 30 lbs over and over on it), if you name a diet I have probably tried it. Since Covid-19 hit I decided to just eat like a normal person, not dieting, and I am staying the same... too funny.
So now I am trying to have a revision to a Duodenal Switch. I have talked to military surgeons twice in past and they said there was nothing they could do to help me, which is partially true, but this time when I went to see them I didn't ask them to help me persay, I asked them to let me have someone else help me and the surgeon said if I can find the right doctor he will write the referal for me. So now I am looking hard for a qualified, experiened surgeon who knows how to perform safe revisions from RNY to DS. I am doing this for me, because I am tired of being fat and it can help with many of my health issues: diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, venious insufficiency, asthma, depression, migraines, ect. I have never said any of this to anybody, but here I am.
About Me
Before & After
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